#conductor

A conductor should guide rather than command. ↗

— Riccardo Muti

#conductor #guide #rather #should #than

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

#because #change #conductor #difficult #first

I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#doing #help #i #i think #pleased

They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#again #been #few #i #impressive

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#being #commitments #composer #conductor #develop

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#being #coach #conductor #director #editor

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding. ↗

— Lara St. John

#battle #been #conducting #conductors #dominated

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude. ↗

— Riccardo Muti

#continent #island #power #rather #solitude

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all. ↗

— Artur Rodzinski

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